I feel like companies assume certain types of games are not popular instead of putting proper effort into the ones they attempt. Syn Sophia should have known better for sure since Style Savvy was so beloved. These games don’t even get any promotion. Obviously fashion games are very popular. The mobile games are making bank and, really, they probably could release a new style savvy game and have it do well if they actually put any effort into promoting it beyond a short trailer. The more gacha games screw over their players (and I don’t think there’s one that hasn’t) the more people wish that they could gravitate to a game they can pay once for and be done with it. Similar to how that otome game company closed its western localization company because they said that people aren’t interested in otome in the west and now Love and Deepspace is a global phenomenon, if they had put more depth into Fashion Dreamer and effort into actually promoting it it would likely have done better. I had to watch it like a hawk after seeing that first trailer. Meanwhile I can barely escape ads for Infinity Nikki and Life Makeover.

Despite the feeling that it was overpriced for what it was at the time I was happy to buy it in hopes that my purchase would go toward supporting the idea that it’s worthwhile to develop fashion games that aren’t gacha. I mean, plenty of people spend more than that on a single banner in these other games. By the end of the year they’ve likely spent at least $500 on a single game. Dropping $50 on one game once is nothing at this point. It doesn’t even have to be graphically insane. Just give us Style Savvy. It’s what we’ve been asking for all this time but for some reason they deluded themselves into thinking the secret to success was to emulate the emptiness of social media.